Its a very good album. As I said on your other Bitty post, Guillaume, he put in a fantastic performance at the Jazz Cafe here in London last week. I was blown away by how good his voice is live - and he comes across as a humble and funny man too. No wonder Sly and Robbie and yourself enjoy working with him.

Reggie Love wrote:Its a very good album. As I said on your other Bitty post, Guillaume, he put in a fantastic performance at the Jazz Cafe here in London last week. I was blown away by how good his voice is live - and he comes across as a humble and funny man too. No wonder Sly and Robbie and yourself enjoy working with him.

He is a great guy to work with. Love himhere is a track from the album, on the Revolution riddim

I am probably going to be the only one saying this but he sounds pretty forced on that revolution riddim. will buy the LP but I think its sounding like a square peg in a round hole if you know what I mean.

I don't get it? Why would I want to buy or listen to someone singing over classic rhythms? I would much rather have the original. What could be better then Dennis Brown singing Revolution on the Revolution rhythm? Peckings do this a lot with Treasure Isle and Studio 1 rhythms and it makes no sense to me at all. Artists need to originate and not to imitate.

to ranking glasses question, its a matter of taste I guess, I much prefer some of the older riddims than most of what I hear originated today. the problem for me is getting new lyrics to flow well with the riddim but I would much rather hear a studio one redo than some scryllix (or whatever that is) from the marley clan. at least its a proven riddim and as your example, now you have something new to play on revolution to go along with the d brown original (and the million others on the riddim starting practically the day after revolution was issued). but really no one but you can really answer that question; either you dig it or you don't. in this case sounds like you don't and that's your prerogative.

edit to add last minute thought: the thing is, it (in this case revolution) is a great riddim and it sounded great then and it sounds great now. I think the same of most of the treasure isle and studio 1 things peckings does. those classics just never seem to lose their appeal to me and actually bringing them back with different approaches and different songs has led me to appreciate them in a new light. but you also have to realize I totally flipped out over a couple of those sam cooke mashups over S1 riddims. I thought they were the best ever and a totally wonderful marriage while most of my friends thought they were trash. so it just goes to show I have a high tolerance to this sort of versioning.

indeed, and exactly why I added that descriptor, to imply "deluxe" in every way. now the funny thing remains while they are 9 pounds in the uk they are 10$ retail at ernie b which is probably closer to 6 pounds and yet they came all the way over the ocean (maybe I am wrong but I think they are UK pressings). maybe its that VAT thing over there that kills ya.